Different Types of Stress Faced by Students Doing their Post-Graduation Studies in Management and the Coping Mechanisms Used by Them to Deal with the Stress.
- Prof. Dhruti Pandya, Assistant Professor, Faculty of management, GLS University,
- Ms. Vedika Hariyani, HR Administrator, RBK International School,
Abstract:
This study aims at analyzing the level of stress in students doing their post-graduation in management field. The
research also aims to find out major stressors for students and its impact on physical and mental wellbeing of them.
Moreover, the study intended to identify whether students use adaptive or mal-adaptive coping mechanism to deal
with stress. A structured questionnaire is built up to collect data from students and the association of stress with
other dependent variables is tested by using SPSS software and applying t – test (two tailed). The results show that
majority of the students fell stressed, mainly those who are the immigrants in the city as they live away from home.
The study further reveals that Academic and Family expectations are the major stressors for students. Stress also
has positive impact on students as majority responded that they feel more focused while witnessing moderate level
of stress. Although students also responded that they use mal adaptive coping mechanism like starving, smoking,
etc. while under stress.
Keywords:
PG Students, Physical Stress, Mental Stress